On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 12:42:22 PM UTC-9, Roddy Scott wrote: > > Dieter's http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/nixie-tubes.htm has data > sheets on all common tubes available. > > The data sheets > <http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/data/in-1/in-1.htm> on this tube > recommend 2.5mA. Tubes should be operated within the values supplied > otherwise you will have either low levels of brightness or if exceeded, > short tube life. The typical strike voltage is 170v and the maintaining > voltage typically 133v at that current value from the data sheet. > > > On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 6:22:36 PM UTC, kitehman wrote: >> >> finally got a power supply and am wondering what to run my IN-1 tubes at >> >> IIRC your supposed to use current to change the brightness right? >> >> i set the supply to 140v and am using 10K or 20K ohm resisters on the >> cathode and get 1.01-1.24ma at 10Kohm and 0.65-.083ma at 20Kohm >> >> what the target? lowest voltage or lowest current? >> >
with the adjustment turned all the way down (137v it strikes just fine, and maintains at 121v) and takes 0.67ma is there anything wrong with running at lower voltage levels other than brightness? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/be5cbf5e-fd73-44cf-b67e-7587f31f686f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
